My blog is ripped by a blog hosted on blogspot
 

1 of my best blogs is getting all it's pictures hotlinked and all the text content that i've hand written myself all ripped and used for all the content on another guys blog at blogspot.com free blog host

anyone know if/how i can report them and have their account cancelled??? i was clicking around and there is hardly anyway to contact them about anything at all

thanks a lot

hmmm.. maybe you don't understand how blogs work at all..

if you run a blog, anyone is able to grab your rss from anywhere.. and you can't do shit about it..

try to read the article about blogs in wikipedia to understand how things work.

You could flag it and/or use the form at http://help.blogger.com/?page=contact&skiplogin=yes

blogspot forbids the use of adult content on blogspot subdomains, report them.

i had that problem a couple times - theres a flag on the top, hit that, but that can take a while

when it happened to me i also changed the rss feed to summary and turned on all the hotlink protection so they saw some pretty nasty pictures

what he said, they should take his blog down pretty fast

Just wait about 2 weeks, then it will convert to a redirect to AFF or similar.

how are they hotlinking your pics? never heard of htaccess?

Take the bastard down :mad: !

i see sooooooooooo many adult blogs using blogspot, yet in their terms, it clearly states they do not allow adult content for commercial use on their website. They must not be too strict about that rule.

What a bunch of ignorants all of you are...

1_anyone is allowed to grab rss form anywhere.. but i guess you north-americans are so stupid to understand that..

2_The flag doesn't take down the blog..

3_never ever saw an adult blog hosted on blogspost that was taken down due of it's content...

stupid retard north-americans..

u really need to read more..

What a bunch of ignorants all of you are...

1_anyone is allowed to grab rss form anywhere.. but i guess you north-americans are so stupid to understand that..

2_The flag doesn't take down the blog..

3_never ever saw an adult blog hosted on blogspost that was taken down due of it's content...

stupid retard north-americans..

u really need to read more..

What a bunch of ignorants all of you are...

1_anyone is allowed to grab rss form anywhere.. but i guess you north-americans are so stupid to understand that..

2_The flag doesn't take down the blog..

3_never ever saw an adult blog hosted on blogspost that was taken down due of it's content...

stupid retard north-americans..

u really need to read more..

umm CreatineGuy if you want to call anyone a idiot you should look in the mirror. Just because a site offers RSS doesn't mean you can steal the feeds to use on your site.

RSS does not trump copyright laws. RSS is just a syndication tool not a free pass to steal content.

RSS feeds are offered in many cases for users whom read via RSS readers. However it doesn't mean you can just plug the feed into your site and steal the content without permission.

jscott if the guy is hot linking your images, that's a easy enough fix.. Just make a image that says.. "this content stolen from "yourdomain.com" and make a htaccess entry to stop his hot linking.

Then report the site to blogspot.

What crawled up your ass and died? Your a fucking tool dude coming on here and being like that.

Oh yeah

There is no such continent as 'america' there is north america and south america but no 'america' so when you want to call someone ignorant go look in the mirror you stupid retarded son of a bitch. "u really need to read more.."

CreatineGuy you're a fucking idiot, go choke on your own vomit

Unless explicitly stated otherwise you are not allowed to republish rss feeds.

What's with all of these idiots with over a post count of 100 that somehow managed to slip by my 'fuck off and die forever' radar?

Find who's polling your RSS feed with either a known script (rss2html) or a generic user-agent. Or, just disable RSS for anything not Google?

Google is often fairly hostile to intellectual property holders, but you can still probably send a successful DMCA to:

Google, Inc.
Attn: Google Legal Support, Blogger DMCA Complaints
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

OR fax to:

(650) 618-2680, Attn: Blogger Legal Support, DMCA Complaints

I'm assuming the blog with your content on it does not have contact info on it. Obviously, the easiest first step is an email saying, hey, please don't scrape my blog.

take em down ... to china town !

why not just disable RSS completely, for google too? what good does having rss on for google?

I had a guy hotlinking my ebay photos and after he got a few bids I changed his photos to gay porn.

CreatineGuy you're a idiot.

Zach best luck getting this issue resolved, when i come back home we should do another full moon :winkwink: :)

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

thats awesome dude..you gotta do shit like that more often

All has been said...
Ht access....
Flag...
Blogspots can not have adult content...
Ignore the creatinegay...

CreatineGuy maybe a real idiot, but some of the stuff he posted is absolutely true.

1. An RSS feed is copyrighted like any other content, no matter if it's text, a picture, a video or a feed...but todays reality is different: If you run a blog with a feed, you'll see it scraped and republished as soon as you start ranking well for any search term. It's not ok, but it happens to almost every blog, if I'd send out DMCA notices for everyone scaping any of my blogs I'd need to hire a full time employee for that. So, while it's illegal, the only way to fight this problem, at least partially, is publishing excerpts only or remove RSS completely....or ignore it.

2. Flagging does shit if not done by LOADS of people, I flagged a blog with all different IPs daily for about 3 months, nothing happened, it's still there, full of stolen content and links to full members area video downloads on rapidshare.

3. Blogger rarely removes adult blogs. In fact, google does not generally disallow adult content. The terms are a little vague about it, they reserve the right to "put such content behind an interstitial", suggest to make it private and do not allow "content that exists for the primary purpose of monetizing porn content or driving traffic to a monetized pornography site". Sounds easy, but I'm sure you could discuss for hours how "primary purpose" can be defined. Fact: There are many adult blogs on blogger that exist for 3+ years and get traffic in the 20-100k daily range, even found 2 PR5 ones. I don't think it's clever to host a blog there, since there is still a chance that it gets removed, but google doesn't seem to care much about it.

To see how much google cares: There was a big warez blog on blogger, links to it were spread over loads of big mainstream webmaster forums for weeks. Instead of deleting it, google made it access to registered blogger members only (so basically anyone spending 30 seconds to make an account). They didn't delete it...

Interesting. I thought Blogger had no inherent feed subscription ability.

[quote]To see how much google cares: There was a big warez blog on blogger, links to it were spread over loads of big mainstream webmaster forums for weeks. Instead of deleting it, google made it access to registered blogger members only (so basically anyone spending 30 seconds to make an account). They didn't delete it...[/img]

this is just wrong, come on google, wtf?

exactly... htaccess and a goatse photo did the trick back in 1996, and im sure it will work still now :pimp

you got scraped...

welcome to the blogosphere :upsidedow

Oh that's nasty!

Exactly StarkReality.. Finally someone who is not ignorant. ;)

1) Let me add these.. If a blog ever gets flagged on blogger. it will not get deleted. Instead, it will only display a warning page to those who flagged it, saying that the page has explicit or disputed content, with a "yes" and a "no". Once you press yes, you are in.

2) Blogger does not delete any content or blog for using a RSS from another blog... Just because using a RSS form another blog is the escene of Blogging. Anyone not knowing this, is a total dumb utter dutch ignorant.

3) If in this forum people are considered idiot for saying the truth (aka something they don't want to hear), then yes, consider me an idiot. :)

it's funny to hear the htaccess thing...

well.. the more people that apply htacces, the better for me.. so i can get their traffic. :thumbsup

Just because something is possible doesn't mean you are authorized to do it. Yes, you can scrape a blog and republish their content on your site with your own ads around it. However anyone doing this without a clear authorization is on the same level as paysite owners who stock their members area with stolen content. You are among the true lowlifes of the industry.

.htaccess you need:

you sound like a fucking idiot LOL :1orglaugh

who said i was talking about rss feeds you fuck?!?!? i'm talking about they ripped ALL my content and link to their own shit, why dont YOU read a little more, and/or stop assuming you know what you're talking about

you're obviously an idiot

thanks man, i'll figure something out

btw, fyi, it's not him taking my rss feeds, he's using my content ONLY, not give me any links to sponsors, or anything, usually if i give out rss feeds it helps me get free traffic as others use it

but this is not the case, he rips everything to benefit from my content, but gives me absolutely NOTHING in return

Send a DMCA notice to Google if its that big of a fucking deal. That *WILL* get it taken down.

Christ you are a fucking idiot. :321GFY

so, would this then affect google indexing of that blog once it is flagged ie. a flagged blog should be like a members area requiring log-in (or answering yes), so hopefully google would not index any of the pages?

It should be that way if it isn't.

If you call "blog" to a plain dumb cookie cutter site with NO RSS...

then you are the dumbest person I have ever seen...

what a fucking idiot..

btw, you will never ever take downthat blog you piece of shit.. I bet you whatever you want..

ok, i would bet you right now

but i doubt you would pay up after i win

you sound like a piece of shit, no chance you would play fair and pay up after a lost bet :1orglaugh

CreatineGuy, you are one of those GFY'ers that makes GFY drama filled, you are a drama bitch, gotta have drama for everything, keyboard warrior etc etc, haha, you are a joke LOL, you are making me smile right now

to all those that had actual decent advice and intelligence, thanks for your replies :)

if you do decide to disable hotlinking (which imho you should have done already) then it might be a good idea to put your blog's url in big bold letters in your nohotlink image...

This will help you out a bit jscott !
 

jscott, do you have a .htaccess file ? If not then get one set up so that the retards hot linking will be forced to stop by you! If you don't know what a .htaccess file is then Google it. Then contact the ISP and complain about stolen content being used on their network.

If all else fails then get legal help.

Later,

.

Your ignorance makes me laugh cheater...

keep crying all you want, because that blogspot site will never get back to you..

keep cryin, you make me laugh baby... snif snif... lol... :)

cheap chicago ignorant. :)

You're an idiot, because you obviously can't read.
Their TOS state that they will put a warning page in place for blogs with sexual content. I have seen a couple of blogs in place that already have such a warning page.

I don't understand the prob... Just disable your RSS feeds or make them labeled with your original blog's URL.